It takes more than five million election officials, one billion paper ballots and 800,000 polling stations for 205 million Indonesians to elect their new president in a single-day national vote on Wednesday.
Millions of Indonesians choose a new president Wednesday as the world’s third-largest democracy aspires to become a global economic powerhouse just over 25 years since emerging from a brutal authoritarian era.
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In forests a few hours' drive from Indonesia's capital, there will be no presidential election campaigning by an Indigenous tribe that cares little for the outside world.There is an inner circle of the tribe whose members are regarded as the most pure, are cut off from the outside world, and live off nature.
In forests a few hours drive from Indonesia s capital, there will be no presidential election campaigning by an Indigenous tribe that cares little for the outside world.